Pants and shirt grip



E. A. GRAVES.

PANTS AND'SHIRT GRIP.

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EDWARD A. GRAVES, OF J AMESIOWN, NEW YORK.

PANTS AND SHIRT GRIP.

Application filed January 28, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. GRAvns, a citizen of the United States,residing at Jamestown, in the county of Chautauqua and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pants andShirt Grips, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to garment supporting means and moreparticularly to a clip for preventing the upward creeping of the shirtand the downward slipping of the trousers.

The invention obviates the use of susponders and the necessity forproviding buttons upon the waist band of pants since the clip is of suchconstruction as to positively engage the waist band of trousers and theskirt portion of a shirt with the result that the trousers are supportedby the shirt and in turn prevent the upward creeping of the shirt byreason of the intermediate connection resulting from the use of the clipwhich engages both the shirt and the trousers.

The drawing illustrates a preferred embodiment of the invention.However, it is to be understood that in adapting the same to meetdifferent conditions, various changes in the form, proportion, and minordetails of construction may be resorted to without departing from thenature of the invention as claimed hereinafter.

In the drawing hereto attached,

Figure 1 is a front view of a clip embodying the invention showing thesame applied.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 with the shirt omitted andillustrating the clip as seen from the inner side of the waist band.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4c is a detail showing the clip as it appears when applied to theshirt.

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the cli orresponding and likeparts are referred to in the following description and indicated in theseveral views of the drawing by like reference characters.

The clip is of oblong form and is preferably constructed of a sheetmetal blank and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 11, 1919.

Serial No. 273,516.

comprises a body portion 1. One end of the clip has an opening thereinof approximately key-hole shape, such opening comprising an enlargedportion 2- and a narrow portion 3. The opposite end of the clip is bentupon itself to provide a hook, the bill portion 4 of which flaresslightly to facilitate the engagement of the hook with the upper edge ofthe waist band of pants or trousers. The butt portion of the hook iscontracted, as indicated at 5 so as to bite the edge portion of thewaist band and pre vent possible displacement of the clip after the samehas been properly engaged with the waist band.

In practice the skirt portion of a shirt 6 is engaged with the lower endof the clip by gathering a portion of the shirt and passing it throughthe opening 2 and then drawing it into the narrow or contracted portion3 of the opening. The hooked end of the clip is now engaged over thewaist band 7 of the trousers or pants and is drawn downward to cause theupper edge of the waist band to be firmly gripped between the contractedportion 5 of the hook. It will be understood that the clip formspositive connecting means between the shirt and pants, therebypreventing the upward creeping of the shirt and the downwarddisplacement of the pants, hence the necessity for providing suspendersor attaching buttons to the waist band of pants or trousers is whollyobviated.

The foregoing description and the draw ings have reference to what maybe considered the preferred, or approved, form of my invention. It is tobe understood that I may make such changes in construction andarrangement and combination of parts, materials, dimensions, et cetera,as may prove expedient and fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is A pants and shirt grip, comprising anelongated body having a key-hole shaped opening at one end and a hook atits opposite end consisting of a portion of the body folded upon itself,said hook einbody- In testimony whereof I affix my signature ing a butt,shank and bill and having its in presence of two Witnesses. bill 'flaredand both the bill and shank EDWARD A. GRAVES. drawn in adjacent the buttto form pro- Witnesses:

5 nouneed gripping portions and a contracted MARY M. Woons,

opening to the butt. LAWRENCE U. HALLECK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe "Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 03

